What bread tasted like 4000 years ago

The Atlantic ^ | 8/29/2020 | KERIDWEN CORNELIUS

[Oshkalaboomboom]

Around 2000 B.C., a baker in the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes captured yeast from the air and kneaded it into a triangle of dough. Once baked, the bread was buried in a dedication ceremony beneath the temple of Pharaoh Mentuhotep II on the west bank of the Nile.

There the yeast slept like a microbial mummy for four millennia, until 2019. That’s when Seamus Blackley—a physicist and game designer best known for creating the Xbox—suctioned it up with a syringe and revived it in a sourdough starter.

Blackley, an amateur Egyptologist, often thinks about this ancient baker as he attempts to re-create the bread of 2000 B.C. “I’m trying to learn from you, my friend,” he tweeted, as if speaking across time to the baker. “Your voice will never be silent … May you have life, forever.”

[Oshkalaboomboom]

Interesting article not just on Egyptian bread but a trend to use ancient baking methods.

[Oshkalaboomboom]

They have also managed to revive yeast from King Tut’s tomb. That stuff is indestructible.

[Cowboy Bob]

as if speaking across time to the baker.

Who write this Shite?

[mylife]

Stale?

[SamAdams76]

Fascinating. I would also love to see how beer tasted 4,000 years ago.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

That stuff is indestructible.

Uh, yeah, ask, um... women like Kamala about that.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Oshkalaboomboom. I think I knead to taste this.

[mylife]

[null and void]

To speak of the dead is to bring them to life ~ Egyptian proverb

[bgill]

Stale doesn’t even come close to what Wallyworld put in my order the other day. Hard as a rock. Been putting it in the toaster to make believe it was supposed to be this hard.

[mad_as_he$$]

My guess is that it would be very dark and bitter.

I always wondered how they got the first guy to drink it. We have this liquid that we forgot about in a jar. It comes from stuff we were making for breakfast last week.

[Monkey Face]

Nice one, Nully! :o]

[mass55th]

It was probably very gritty as it was in the Medieval period. During the medieval period, white flour was expensive so only the rich could afford it. The peasants got the dark flour to make their bread.

[mass55th]

"Fascinating. I would also love to see how beer tasted 4,000 years ago."

Could have been very bitter, unless they added honey to it. Egyptians were bee keepers.

[Deaf Smith]

"yeast from King Tut's tomb"

Was that yeast from his toenails?

[Islander7]

I read the article but still don’t know.

[the_daug]

Isn’t yeast part of decay.

[oldsicilian]

Probably better than the water

[mylife]

Some Walmart bakers are pretty good, did you do squeeze test?

[Da Coyote]

“I read the article but still don’t know.”

Funny, I had the same impression. A few paragraphs down when I realized I was reading words cleverly linked together to give a false impression of providing actual information, I looked at the source. Eureka. The Atlantic?

Left the site immediately.